Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Marion City Fire Department

Marion, OH · Marion County. Marion City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 3 stations and 65 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

65
Total personnel
3
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Marion City Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Ohio average.

Top 10%
national personnel size
+117%
vs. Ohio average
3
stations

National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
44/100
Marion City Fire Department

A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.

Staffing capacity C
21.7 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
65 personnel · 3 stations

Marion City Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Marion, OH (Marion County), with 3 stations and 65 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,234 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #2,234 of 22,440
  • OH personnel rank #90 of 1,108
  • 4.62 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 9 other listed departments in Marion County

Marion City Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

65 Top 10% higher than 90% of 22,440 departments

Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel

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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06

Dispatch plate

Sheet 51005 · Marion City Fire Department, OH 65 personnel · 3 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 65
  • STA-FEW 3 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #2,234
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hudson New Hampsh…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Hudson New Hampshire Fire Department Central Station, NH (+ 0 personnel)

Career/paid HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.

Personnel neighbourhood

Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every OH department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Marion, OH
FDID
51005

Staffing vs the Ohio average

How Marion City Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #90 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,234 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 117% above the state average
Stations
3
State fire deaths/yr
138
OH departments
1,501

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Marion County

County mix is mostly volunteer (8 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

4.62 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 65 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Hudson New Hampshire Fire Department Central Station, NH (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nearby Departments

Battle Run Fire Department
Prospect · volunteer
First Consolidated Fire District
Caledonia · volunteer
Green Camp Township Fire Department
Green Camp · volunteer
New Vision Fire and Rescue
Marion · volunteer
Pleasant Township Fire Department
Marion · volunteer
Scioto Valley Fire District
La Rue · volunteer
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Nationwide career peers near 65 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.